“Actually the bullets I use, well yeah, the bullet I use for deer hunting is an all-copper one, I guess I didn’t even think about that but I do use all copper bullets,” says Bradley.

“All hunters that I know and speak to, we would never want any eagles to die for any reason,” adds avid deer hunter Andy Pantzlaff from Maribel.

Pantzlaff says states like California will soon require all hunters to use full copper bullets, which he feels would have a negative impact in Wisconsin.

“It’s going to affect 2.5 million people in the state of Wisconsin to go to solid copper bullets and that’s three times the cost, it affects a lot of people economically, but it also affects our way to manage the deer herd, if we state losing deer hunters we can’t manage the deer herd and as you know that’s one problem the state of Wisconsin has is keeping the deer herd under control,” says Pantzlaff.

With the eagle population at it’s highest point in decades, Pantzlaff feels the ammunition argument lacks perspective.

“If you have more eagles you’re going to have more of them perishing via eagle on eagle fights, electric power lines and that’s where common sense really has to take over, do we affect 2.5 million humans because we’re losing 25 eagles a year, well then what do we do, turn off all the lights because they’re getting killed on power lines,” questions Pantzlaff.